The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

We don’t live in a world that’s black and white.

I’m a stranger here. I’m a threat. Definitely. I didn’t realize they were so insecure. It just came to me now, but it true. Very insecure.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

You can’t have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that’s very important.

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

Whenever I do your show, sometimes I get a little check in the mail and then I take that check and buy a new pair of shoes, and then I wear those shoes the next...

There’s a picture of this woman who’s got every different color hair. I thought that would be really interesting to pick up my kids looking like that.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul...

You can call me an older woman – I don’t mind that at all – just don’t call me an old one, because I’m not.

My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

And remember, it’s also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without...

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.

There was a friend of my husband, John Monk Saunders, who was in charge of the sound department, which was a kind of reassuring thing.

I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don’t feel that any more.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

I love romantic comedies. They’re for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There’s nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That’s...

I’m not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

My first speaking part was to read for John Forsythe for Bachelor Father. I was the lead, opposite him.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see...

Sinatra was just one of Mom’s friends.

I’m really into the details of the movie’s moments and the character’s hair and what’s in my handbag and what’s in the backseat of my car.

I grew up in the church, and I feel very strongly about it.

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they’re high drama. It’s also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

I don’t know how people recognize me.

Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn’t relate to most of it.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the...

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn’t want to happen has happened.

I wasn’t really interested in doing television. I don’t have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

Yes, I have something else that I produced and he directed. We have something else that we’re trying to get off the ground that we have a script for.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

I mean, I had probably an illusion of being the wife that, you know, I wanted to create a home. I wanted to have children. I wanted him to be a husband. It was never...

I’m not into wrinkles.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

Yes. I’ve been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will.

But there isn’t any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It’s there. I’m already whole.

I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I’ve been looking for my whole...

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.